Located on historic Benefit Street in Providence is the stunning Providence Athenaeum. Though the pandemic has caused them to shift the way they conduct their normal day-to-day operations like so many ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three years and counting. That’s how long Mara Koppel has been reading Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” a novel that’s almost as famous for its epic length — some ...

Visited by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Providence Athenæum, founded in 1836, is one of just 21 member-funded libraries still open in the U.S. The ...

If you travel to Providence with a bibliophile, be warned: you'll be fighting tooth and nail to get them out of the Providence Athenaeum. This member-supported library opened in 1836 on Benefit Street ...

The Providence Athenaeum welcomes three generations of the Philbrick family tonight at 7 for an evening marking 23 years of the Philbrick Poetry Project. Created in honor of Charles Philbrick, a noted ...

Weekly visits the Providence Athenaeum—a library with stories to tell. In this edition of the continuing Window on Rhode Island series, Rhode Island PBS Weekly visits a library with stories to tell: ...

PROVIDENCE — The Providence Athenæum recently announced a wide-ranging virtual winter/spring program season, examining topics such as the legacy of John Locke, Egyptology, indigenous food cultures, ...

The Providence Athenaeum, founded as "The Athenaeum" in 1836, is an independent, member-supported library open to the public. Its progenitors were two earlier libraries, The Providence Library Company ...